Jim’s story: the assholes who asked us to feed him went and MOVED without telling anyone.
The whole street down there is pissed off at them for that one.
So now we have a sad cat, crying at the window, wondering why his people won’t come to get him. When he does get a bit of a a walk, he wonders why they aren’t at his home, and why they’ve left him no food.
Oh, they left him food all right — in an open bag that was getting so damp we had to take it before it went moldy.
The guy in the couple was a Neah Bay school teacher. He doesn’t work there any more.
This is what we get teaching the kids…. some value base, huh?
I went and voodoo’d their front driveway. And it wasn’t to make their hair fall out or anything minor. If anything happens is that 1st degree? I don’t think voodoo judgments count anywhere but Louisiana and Haiti.
From what I’ve seen at the animal rescue where I volunteer, Jim was lucky. At the very least, the couple suckered you instead of just leaving him on the empty property. Like you said earlier, the more I work with other animals, the more I hate people.
Suckered me? Well, that’s not MY fault. I’m used to friends and colleagues and readers who are decent, stand-up people. Par’m me for being Rommel dealing with the brownshirts. Blame the perp, please.
The more I’ve lived with rural Americans, the more I’ve learned they’re all on the make, they’ve all got some scam going on outsiders and on each other. People in cities have to have some degree of honesty because it comes out too quickly. Rural people are all related to each other, and really think they can do this to each other and that it’s perfectly reasonable behavior. I’ve come to realize that the bumper sticker “The 10 commandments are not multiple choice” are intended for the congregation. They especially ignore the 8th — while demanding everybody go to their badly-educated churches.
Oh, I hope it was a good voodoo, and knowing you, I bet it was.
Hey, now, not ALL rural peoples are hicks; my experience with them has been fine – it’s the freakin CITY people that piss me off, and are duplicitous and nasty. Of course, this is East Coast, and yeah, there’s a lot of “relateds” around here, which means we all treat each other nicely, because family ain’t got no qualms bout showing up at your door with a baseball bat and makin’ “nice” *evilgrin*
There are some dumb ones around here, but they usually move away. The people next door are noisy, but they don’t leave their stuff all over anybody’s lawn but their own, and their kids are – shockingly – respectful. And we take care of each other here too – I’d definitely not survive if I moved back to the city.
Awww man, slagging us city people isn’t fair either. Some of us are nice and upstanding and wouldn’t be nasty unless you were nasty first.
As for poor Jim, what happened to him makes me bleedin’ mad. I’m saying my own little voodoo curse right now and I hope it works too.
I can’t imagine doing that to an animal…or to my neighbours.
I think we’re saying we’d like to kick our fellow Americans around the blocks for being idiots. And what is WITH the making cruel remarks about animals — especially cats — as though it’s funny? How fucked up in the head are THEY?